... you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie."" - Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried This is not about the coverage of the Vietnam War, rather, it is about Hollywood's representation of the war. It's all about the power. The power to make images that may displace, distort and destroy knowledge ... and cultural stigmata of incurable otherness'. But that is how you make money. Movies are made to make money and antiwar movies get made because their producer rec...

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